Update OpenSSL on OS X with Homebrew

Question

I\'m using MacOS X 10.7.5 and I need a newer OpenSSL version due to handshake failures. There are several tutorials on the internet and I tried the following:

Answer 1

On mac OS X Yosemite, after installing it with brew it put it into

/usr/local/opt/openssl/bin/openssl

But kept getting an error "Linking keg-only openssl means you may end up linking against the insecure" when trying to link it

So I just linked it by supplying the full path like so

ln -s /usr/local/opt/openssl/bin/openssl /usr/local/bin/openssl

Now it's showing version OpenSSL 1.0.2o when I do "openssl version -a", I'm assuming it worked